The Dangers of Worldliness (Taglish) - Jeff Eliscupidez

[Music] [Music] welcome back to our very first service during the weekends and uh a happy wife it's a happy life so we're moving to a new house uh next month later i stumbled upon this article these two pieces of paper bent on it fetched an auction for 1.8 million dollars how about that for two pieces of paper well apparently this paper was written in 1922. it's just a hotel stationary viniga is a bell boy the biggest tip ever it was uh it was sold in an auction last month or two months ago for 1.8 million dollars okay so okay it was given in 1922 by a man who received a message from a bell boy i've been a bell boy you just won a nobel prize and this man won the nobel prize and then he was scribbling in these two pieces of paper i don't know bakami it happened in japan it was in i think tokyo imperial hotel so who knows because this might cost more to the causing a spare change and apparently 1922 yuan fast forward 2018 it fetched for 1.8 million dollars so you're wondering right that's my great-grandfather by the name of albert einstein he scribbled that that piece of paper and that is the theory of happiness in place of a tip and it sold for more than one million dollars until less than 100 years after 1.8 million dollars a calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness that is the theory of happiness of einstein some of you prayed um yeah because some of us are so consumed with the pursuit of success and there's this constant restlessness that was written on the piece of paper and imagine brilliant will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success there's nothing wrong with pursuit of success but combined with constant restlessness i was picturing a picture of a rap a pursuit of promotion a pursuit of kota a pursuit of something and there's nothing wrong with that but there's this constant restlessness now you're trying to raise a millionaire some millionaire millionaire when is enough enough stress and then for what foreign the pursuit of constant restlessness we celebrate success as if that's our god we are so identified with our career with our success that we draw our worth and value from those things now let me balance this later on we're going to look at that later because today we're going to talk about worldliness we're going to talk about this topic on our fifth week of our series entitled uh uh an insidion gospel demonstrated and we're going to talk about worldliness because this is one way that hinders us from really being a a gospel presenter or when we're demonstrating the gospel in beginning worldly nothing you know sublime worldiness simply refers to uh say relating to or devoted to the temporal world being worldly okay you're you're so consumed by the temporal massage it means you're giving to someone else the love and devotion that only belong to god and god alone we're so concerned of the worldly temporal affairs and at the same breath we're neglecting spiritual things the other half of the coin you are neglecting the spiritual world it's kind of like june june one time sorry god life that is lived if this present world where all that there is it is life that is live without regard to god that is worldliness we keep being do not love the world or the things in the world if anyone loves the world the love of the father is not in him wow interesting isn't it but the temporal things the love of the father is not in you i'm not saying that it's a bible for all that is in the world look at those three things the desires of the flesh the desires of the eyes the pride of life sounds family south familiar union penang temple satan jesus there's a wilderness right it's not from the father but it's from the world that's the danger my friend if we continue living as if this is all there is and we claim we're christian we live here and then we say we're christian now and it makes something a worldly because sometimes it's easy to judge young world venezuela [Applause] it's easy to judge worldliness but here's the thing it doesn't mean bmw worldly because you can be poor and still have a worldly point of view you might have nothing in your pocket and still have greed in you because worldliness is not an issue of the pocket it's a heart issue and today we're going to examine them self-examination i'm not going to pinpoint any one of you in a world like a world so we're going to self-examine ourselves are there manifestations are there indications because today we're going to talk about three symptoms that we are becoming or we are already worldly okay okay first thing nasim thomas worldliness is there are strife we're not saying i wordly no but that indicator that you are starting to be worldly is there are stripes so we're going to open our bible to james chapter four ninety three on our fifth week of our series uh a gospel illus uh demonstrated something what causes strife or quarrels among you okay is it not yes anu that your passions are at war within you in other words look at this verse what seems like interpersonal issues are really an issue of our own hearts there is this passion that is at war within us there is this disorder in our own hearts and being materialistic this uh um worldliness produces strife the disordered nature of our relationships whether to a son to a parent a mother to a father husband to wife whether the disordered nature of our relationships is a reflection of the disordered nature of our own hearts whether barkada business partner churches split because of worldliness money issue marriages split because of money issue inheritance inheritance but here are some stories killed over gold brother-in-law admits killing family of four in row over inheritance five children who murdered their parents for the inheritance over and over again so many stories people are fighting and really they're quarreling over money i just counseled people i mean as a pastor we counsel people it will reveal so many things in our hearts when money comes it's the number two causes of i know it's the second cause of of uh divorce infidelity is number one number two is always money number three of course lack of communication again there are a lot of people that go away because of money back it down you desire the word desire means you set your heart upon or last after okay desire is not always negative you can use desires a positive desire to advance god's kingdom but in this context it's a negative you desire and do not have because on an iphone because you cannot obtain so here's the result you fight then quarrel menu lasts for something and what make it sinful is because at all in other words desires are not wrong what makes them right or wrong is the object of our desire i'm not saying iphone is bad but what was the desire acquiring that i'm not saying rolex is bad okay don't get me wrong elvis no no i know your motivation so here are the things that you have to wrestle with i'm not going to say you check your heart is that a desire because you're drawing worth and value from those stuff because believe me iphone you're valuable in the eyes of god he died for you hello and you do not have because malina you do not ask and then when you ask you do not receive backhead because you ask wrongly to spend it on your passions the word passions means your greek word or he don't it means pleasure that's why we get the word hedonism and indonesia simply means the pursuit of pleasure sensual self indulgence because because you want to buy that you want to spend that for your own sinful passion the issue is self-indulgent pleasure pursuing pleasure more than god i mean self-indulgent gusto me me me me me it's all about me par you lack sense of security foreign when you hear this seems like an escalation material is similar issue but equivalent to adultery adulterous because technically as christians were married to god we are his bride and now since aside from god you're not adulterous i cannot tell my wife huh 365 days in 2018. so you go away for 364 days right you cannot say i love you han that was my ex no same thing with god how comes a marriage i am but with god we say we honor god really how by giving our all because here's the thing friendship with the world is an enmity with god therefore whoever wishes to be friend of the world makes himself an enemy of god friend enemy listen up this reference gives us a clue to the gravity of materialism we think of it just having too many shoes it's not about having too many shoes this verse shows us it's really about a breakup there's a there's a problem there's a break in the relationship with god because we're lasting for something else what is your heart lasting after today and in gustavus yeah i get that you come here every saturday great i can easily say where your heart is lasting by just checking your credit card bill i can easily say where your heart is lasting by checking how many hours a day can consume to something you can do facebook three hours a day and quiet time i because this is a real question what is your heart lasting after today because the great scheme of materialism or worthiness isn't because god is against stuff hello god created everything he wants you to have that lv bag hello he wants us to give things for our enjoyment but the real issue here because our hearts have broken confident with god and lasted after something else what is one thing like what is one thing i may drive vermont i just presented to you your god because if there's one thing broken-hearted causes us to fight amongst ourselves so far self-sufficiency self-sufficiency something verse 13 there's this bunch of businessmen okay and they're very much aware because there are merchants everywhere so james says come now you will say go down the next sub today or tomorrow we'll go into such and such a town and spend the year there and make a trading day set up a business set up a booth make an online website and then make a profit they speak as if the outcome is sure this bunch of businessmen think that they have the outcome yes they plan and all these are achievers these are intelligent businessmen these are planners and they're saying we're going to go to this town we're going to plant this we're going to be doing it and we're going to make money okay now let me just balance this james is not against the idea of profit hello god wants us to be profitable he wants us to to grow but the idea of purely worldly basis for making plans so many games yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring the biggest problem with success is thinking that success came entirely by our own hands somebody james you don't even know what will happen tomorrow i say what happened remember the parable of the rich fool in [Applause] here's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna tear my old barn i'm gonna big i'm gonna build a bigger barn and i'm gonna sit down relax enjoy life and be merry let's have this story in jesus you fool this very night you're gonna die so who will inherit your millions it's a god someone else not because you're generous but simply because you're dead have you read the book that how the mighty fall by jim collins he's talking about great companies who used to be great motorola used to be the number one but because of the reason of you priest or the world jubilee simply means excessive pride there's so much self-confidence i mean 49 million users can't be wrong because they don't want to ship the digital analog silo they invented startup the smallest phone motorola motorola that's the point they used to be number one and now they're way down there because when they think i can do this i am responsible for this this story in the bible side story uh about these two million israelites just came out of egypt around two million of them right they were slaves for 400 years all they can remember they're slaves of the egyptians egypt they eat like egyptians they walk like an egyptian they speak like an egyptian and and they dance like an egyptian egyptian and then out of the blue god said i'm gonna bring you out of egypt i'm going to bring it to a promised land and they brought moses remember moses yes okay okay so moses was there brought out these two million people so picture with me for a moment look up here the picture is like this is somewhere in tundo okay all they know is that and they're going to be brought to the promised land kind of like forbes park that's that's where i live okay okay okay there's this one the real forms park in makati listen up from squatter area they're gonna go to forbes park in a matter of weeks of travel and somewhere along the way let's say a promised land is a land of flowing milk and honey a promised land there are houses they didn't build there are vineyards they didn't plant that there are horses you bite on my swimming pool my chevrolet la completo and from squatter area they're gonna live there for free so somewhere in the middle god pause moses because there's a tendency for them let me watch this warn these people there's a tendency for this human being including all of us that when we accomplish something of worth and value or not and god told moses tell these people you may say to yourself my power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me look at those words you yourself my my me what god is saying when they're sitting down is a form spark when they're taking a dip in the pool they're gonna say look at me with the strength of my connection sagobierno with the strength of my last name with the strength of my diploma because i have harbored degree whatever with the strength of my hands i produced this belt for me look at you death and god is simply saying what you're slaves few weeks ago what are you talking about and some of you here listen up some of you here may have felt this that you are solely responsible for your success have bad news for you the very oxygen you're breathing comes from god so if you think you're self-sufficient and can live a single moment without god we're wrong sometimes we think we're self-sufficient sometimes we think that we are our own gods i mean so many james you do not know what tomorrow will bring somebody what is what is your life in the first place compared to eternity our lives are just a missed you know what the mist is here today gone later but next sprinkle it's just a mist hold on a few seconds we're gone your life even um 18 90 years old it's just a means compared to eternity so what are you bragging about god our brain is so small ten percent pago magana some of you slightly use masmalia okay what is your life and you think that you can do it from this verse what this verse is saying for a little time and we're vanishing we don't know what the fullness of god's plan is so live it up to god god's will will always prevail many are the plans hard but it's the lord's plan that will always prevail lastly every day that we wake up is a gift from god take the time every waking up in the mornings worldliness causes us to think that we are self-sufficient any takers not feeling more worldly all right strife self-sufficiency and lastly social injustice but it's worth the shot social injustice come now you reach weep and haul for the mysteries that are coming upon you behold the wages of the laborers will mold your fields which are kept back by fraud are crying out against you and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the lord of hosts what this verse is saying you made yourself rich for at the spec and yet you're the one being rich so now that they are now crying to god because of injustice well on benefits because you have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgences you have fought in your hearts for what in the day of slaughter people in our church here i'm sure you need to hear this because some of you have staff some of your managers some of your directors some of you are overseeing some people it's a reminder enrichment two weeks ago about really equality some of you need to understand some of gentlemen are being oppressed by rich people here's a great reminder for you that god will deal with them right now the problem jeff are you saying aspire no no no no i know that the moment we're born we're geared towards success i'm about the moment right i mean the moment the moment you're born you're geared towards success and there's nothing wrong with that and the goal is so that you can make it in life i love this and goldman the moment you're born so that you can make it in life wow i'm happy for you you made it now the question is who defines that it where did you get the idea of that [Applause] you didn't made it i you made it you made it who defines that because most of the time here's our definition of it more money more it the higher the bank account [Music] some of our campus missionaries here i mean look at riya because they have this faulty idea of it the the the higher the corporate ladder you climbed the greater the it that's why it brought us so much poverty mentality that says i want more and then you can be undermined there's greed that says i don't have enough pakistan i want more and we're oppressing people we're doing things that indeed we're we are violating our integrity compromising so lastly worldliness causes us to oppress others so there you have it the three symptoms of worldliness thank you because okay so jeff so what's your remedy remedy funding worldly because at the end of the day paguardica you are enemy of god so we don't want that right so what's the remedy the answer very dear to me grace my wife's name is grace okay so the remedy for worthiness is the grace of god according to james because through the james through the grace of god we're gonna submit we're gonna draw near and we're gonna humble ourselves so three things i might get an attention as we as i have the last ten minutes okay so james four six seven but he gives more grace therefore it says social injustice humongous self-sufficient human away because of their passion god opposes them they are prideful god opposes the proud and gives grace to the humble i know that i'm a humble person thank you grace no no no he gives grace to the humble the ultimate solution to worldliness is humbling ourselves before god and asking for his grace more grace that's what the bible says he gives more more more more grace what is grace grace is an unmerited favor you don't deserve it but he gives it anyway parama counter young give me the grace but feeling more your tendency to have social injustice and oppress people lord give me the grace because three things happen when you have the grace of god number one submit everybody say submit submit yourselves therefore to what to god and then the result you can resist the devil and he will flee from you when you are submitting to god the the the the desire the evil passion and desire for money just flee a picture of submission let's go to basic moon okay don't worry if your first time this is not for you okay christian great this next slide is not for you but for christians this is for you are we giving our tithes an offering look up here if you're saying you're under the lordship of god the minimum okay ten percent he owns everything in the first place the earth is the lord and everything in it when you give your time it doesn't mean see god it's not as if hello is not for god it's more for you because it's a picture of submission when you give your tithes you're saying lord i'm under your lordship so what you commanded me to give to the church the 10 this is all for you the 90 is equally concerned about that let's have a little bit of history when magellan came here okay when magellan came here oh [Music] [Music] but i'm under your lordship the moment that vacation is something to that spaniards what he's saying is i'm under the sovereignty of your king that's what you're saying in fact that's why we are being taxed by the government because we're under the sovereignty of the republic of the philippines there's a sovereignty and republic of the philippines are you getting the point but since we are under the sovereignty of the republic of the philippines we are giving our taxes church we're not after your money we're after your heart because god says where your heart is they're your treasure as well it's the other way around where your treasure is they're your heart as well so basically 10 at best is after your heart so if you have issue with tides this is the greatest that's why god said you cannot worship god and satan under a curse that's what the bible says i'm not saying that it's what the bible says you're under a curse because you're not giving your tithes you want to be blessed give human missionaries campus missionaries but for now give the minimum what's expected from you that's god's that's not yours in the first place here's the lesson luke 69 pastor pastor no no no no but you should work the wealth to benefit others and make friends why so that you will be welcome when your earthly possessions are gone they will welcome you to an eternal home commitment 300 abundance that you have the time the talent the treasure and then introduce christ felt need and then real need last week but sometimes we have to change our perspective regarding wealth because if your goal is just to let i mean you'll only find yourself frustrated right so life is uncertain the bible says do not put your wealth trust in wealth which is so uncertain what i don't know heart mo let me share to you a story of arthesol class so worship night now i receive a uh a tag request that publishes a facebook after worship night last thursday we have every first thursday of the month worship night data so we just pray for two hours worship and all and continuation making the long story short worship night okay but altar called it as a worship night okay taxi drivers foreign you show worldly wealth you know every week engagement because you have so much compassion for the lost submit submit to god and next you're going to draw near to god and he will draw near to you cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts you're double-minded once they draw you it means repent before god and i think this is the application for some of us here maybe some of you have too much strife you think you're self-sufficient maybe there's social injustice your application is drawn near to god by saying lord i may be in the world may you nagging worldly but i repent i love this quote from dwight l moody christian should live in the world but not be filled with it a ship lives in the water but if the water gets into the ship she goes to the bottom so christians may live in the world but if the world gets into them they sink wow i love this the bible says we are in the world but we are not off the world office but we are not off that office we are called to be the salt and the light of the world let me ask you this question are we sinking in the life that we have because believe me there's going to be emptiness you're going to feel yourself always strongly always then what i spoke to multi-millionaires so if you if you don't stop we're going to think that marriage will sink eventually that relationship with your children will sink eventually that business will sink to the bottom and you're going to be dragged with it draw near lastly humble humble yourself before god and here's the thing he will exalt you i love that when you are humbling yourself you are being you're going to be exalted before i'm not saying okay here's the wrong application of this preaching god's grace put you right on the center what does it mean you are guarded by contentment okay foreign what will shield you from veering towards greediness number two more on there's a godly ambition because god wants you blessed so that you can be a blessing to others look at the proverbs 11 25 a generous person will prosper whoever refreshes others will be refreshed as well guys god's grace brings you here right smack in the center wherein there's contentment and there's ambition in the young freeloader god wants you blessed so you can be a blessing to others so let's end here worldliness i hope and pray that you're not going to be this type of person because believe me gospel demonstration will be hard let's all stand we're not yet done don't go away but please stand i love this verse in psalm 16 verse 11 as we end it you make known to me the path of life in your presence lord there is fullness of joy i love that fullness that even money can never bring fullness that even rolls royce can never give fullness that can only be found in christ and at your right hand our bless yours throughout eternity forevermore we can only find fullness of joy in god jesus came so that we may have life and have it to the full so guys if you're struggling with hedonism you just want good times good life and and you're compromising your integrity your character it's not going to be good at the end because worldliness will always end bitterness it will always end lugika because your enemy of god so today we're gonna some of you maybe to some degree you need to repent before you're gonna draw near before god lord lord social injustice self-sufficiency whatever it is i know god is speaking to you kalina while i'm talking knowing that every spending decision is a spiritual decision some of you need to really think twice be bilingual what's the reason some of you need to repent before god today because you're thinking really now i know providencia so we're going to repent today if some of you here on the issue of finances whether you're in in luck or in plenty but your heart is not right some of you are in the dias attacks maybe because you're thinking [Music] god knows your heart some of you are struggling giving because you're so stingy i don't know as all heads bow down all cl eyes are closed if that's you whatever issue about finances raise your hand we're just to draw near to god today come on this is the time to be set free whatever your motivation hillary's a god it needs to be repented before god father we come before you today knowing lord god that apart from you we will never be satisfied we will always be in luck lord as we are raising our hands we are repenting before you whether we are in plenty or in luck we know lord malayan motivation and heart naming that's why lord today as christians help us give us the grace to humble before you to draw near to you to submit to your lordship every issue in a materialistic heart number we just leave it up to you and lord i know as you said in your word you oppose the proud and you give more grace to the humble father we repent we ask for forgiveness in jesus name amen [Music] and this world is fading away he's a reminder for us along with everything that people crave but anyone who does what pleases god will live forever i'm gonna offer one invitation to some of you here the word will live forever talks about eternal life whatever you have now will fade in fact the moment benilimi koche paglavasa casa depreciated in a hundred thousand new value you cannot sell it the same price so everything material thing the bini bili morito it all fade away but something a thing that lasts forever is your soul and today i'm gonna give you that invitation to give your life to christ because if you've been experiencing emptiness relationship after relationship up the relationship rolex after rolex akochi after kochi baha'i it will never end it's insatiable only jesus christ can satisfy the thirst and today this is the best day of your life grab is the lord because you're gonna receive christ today and you're gonna have life a bios type of life is for material things christ offers something better a zoey type of life and it all starts by raising your hand and accepting the lord jesus christ if that's you today you want to receive christ can you just raise your hand and experience joy that's beyond competitor yes i see that answer anybody yes sir i see that hand yes ma'am i see that hand come on this is the greatest decision of your life who to worship is the greatest decision of your life last call anybody from from from balcony anybody you're raising your hand yes for those of you raising your hand can you say this prayer with me lord jesus thank you for dying for me [Music] i know i'm a sinner and i can never save myself but starting today i give my life to you i repent from all my sins lord jesus i accept you today as my lord and savior this i pray in jesus name amen you

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